Spring arrived very early this year in much of the country, bringing what traditionally is the best time to buy and sell real estate, even through the downturn.
Issues of tight credit linger and median home prices continue to decline, though more slowly. Yet there appear to be enough positive indicators to push once-reluctant sellers into the market.
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Among those pluses: record-low fixed interest rates for mortgages and the highest affordability levels since record-keeping began in the 1970s.
For sellers, it is time for real estate theater. The house is the star. The cast includes agents and brokers, home inspectors, title people, mortgage companies, lenders, underwriters and, obviously, buyers.
What is the seller’s role, and how big is their part?
That varies, said Diane Williams of Weichert Realtors in Blue Bell, Pa.: Some sellers’ personalities make them very “hands-on”; others consider the agent “the professional with great experience — ‘you handle the transaction, I am too busy to worry about the day to day.'”
Read more at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/sell/sc-cons-0405-spring-sellers-20120406,0,1723331.story
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